The Real Scoop On Breakfast Cereals

By Stacey Nolan Young

Awhile back Mark Young wrote an article on breakfast cereals titled Superpowers and Cereal Killers about the serious implications that feeding these to your children could have on their health. He compared some of todays’ most popular brands (the ones that are deemed “healthy”) and gave you the real story on them.

As trainers, we spend an enormous amount of time educating people on proper nutritional habits and basically “deprogramming” what the media has told us all is healthy. Sometimes we succeed in our goals and hope that the word gets spread further. Breakfast cereals have always been one of those “hot topics” for clients as they have heard over and over again through agressive ad campaigns that some of these options are actually good for us.

So imagine my surprise and delight when I read The Hamilton Spectator this morning and come across an article that compares and lists the ten least nutritious breakfast cereals. I was so happy about this (yes- I’m kinda a geek) that I decided to share this article on our website as well. The author of this article breaks them down for us.

So please read this and keep in mind what you are doing when you are starting your child off every day with this kind of candied crap. Think of the ill effects that this has on their development and growth.

Check out the article HERE.

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